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KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) – At least two of the many beaches found to be contaminated near Ketchikan continue to have high levels of a wastewater and sewage pathogen, an Alaska official said. The waters at Thomas Basin and Rotary Beach have high levels of enterococci bacteria, the Ketchikan Daily News reported Thursday. Officials found high levels of the bacteria last week at several beaches between Clover Pass and Saxman. The bacteria is common in the fecal matter of warm-blooded animals, more so in human feces, according to the National I...
Public Works changed its summertime water management conservation level back to normal last week, ending a month of minor restrictions. Up until last Friday, users of Wrangell’s water utility have been advised to use less water starting in mid-July, when the city entered the first of a three-stage response status. Better water management has been a key issue with the city this year, with an emergency response plan formally adopted in April. Last summer demand outpaced the water treatment plant’s ability to supply, prompting the borough man...
A two-week clinic for burgeoning swimmers concluded last weekend with a meet on Saturday. The summer swim camp was put on jointly by Wrangell Swim Club and Parks and Recreation, and included about 16 youths. Including kids from as young as five to 12 years old, the hour-a-day sessions were meant to help build intermediate swimming skills for relatively new learners. "The bulk of our kids were around nine or 12," said Jamie Roberts, who along with Bruce McQueen coaches the club. Over the course...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – Budgetary delays by the Alaska Legislature have put the state’s schools in a tough situation. School officials sent layoff notices to nearly 700 teachers at the end of the past school year. They were under the impression that statewide education funding was dropping. But six weeks after those notices, the Legislature restored funding to last year’s total of $1.3 billion, prompting superintendents throughout the state to ask their slighted teachers to stay. As of Tuesday, there were 541 school jobs still open in Alask...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – Hundreds of Pacific walruses came ashore to a barrier island on Alaska’s northwest coast, the earliest appearance of the animals in a phenomenon tied to climate warming and diminished Arctic Ocean sea ice. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Wednesday that several hundred walruses were spotted during the first week of August near the village of Point Lay on the Chukchi Sea. Last week, the number had grown to 2,000, said spokeswoman Andrea Medeiros in an email response to questions. It’s the earliest date for t...
Fifty women from Petersburg and Wrangell played in a golf outing on Saturday to raise money for cancer patients in southeast Alaska at the 2017 Rally for Cancer Care. The outing, sponsored by the Wrangell Medical Center Foundation, generated more than $3,200 to help pay for travel costs that cancer patients have. The Muskeg Meadows Golf Course hosted 34 players from Petersburg and 16 from Wrangell. Others came just to donate, participate in the silent auction and eat breakfast and lunch with...
The country is preparing for an astronomical moment that hasn’t happened in 99 years, and southeast Alaska will witness about 60 percent of it. For the first time since 1918, a total solar eclipse will cut through the United States on Mon., August 21. A 70-mile wide totality line will move through the country, starting at Oregon and ending in South Carolina. People within that line will see the moon pass between the sun and earth completely, causing a brief period of daytime darkness, said Rick Braun, a land surveyor and Petersburg resident w...
PETERSBURG — The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced August 15, that the 2017/2018 commercial Dungeness crab fall fishing season in Registration Area A (Southeastern Alaska) will be reduced in duration. All waters open to commercial Dungeness fishing in Southeastern Alaska will open at 8:00 a.m. on Sun., October 1, 2017 and will close at 11:59 p.m. on Tues., October 31, 2017. In accordance with the Southeastern Alaska Dungeness Crab Management Plan [5 AAC 32.146(3)], the department has completed an analysis of the incidence of l...
Six women paddled a section of the Stikine River, starting at Great Glacier on Thursday night and ending up in Wrangell on Sunday evening. Pictured having breakfast at the Chief Shakes Hot Tubs on Saturday morning are (l to r) Karrin Sporer, Holly Padilla, Angie Flickinger, Amber Al-Haddad, Kate Thomas and not pictured, Melissa Morrin....
August 23, 1917: Harry Eastman who formerly conducted a shoe shop on Front Street and who left Wrangell for Atlin in January, has enlisted in Ontario and is now on his way to France. Mr. Eastman made many friends in Wrangell. His place of business was known as the Canadian club, and many men now living in Wrangell will read this item with pleasant recollections of evenings spent at there. He is well past the draft age, but has nevertheless responded to the need of his country for men. August 21, 1942: Don’t be too surprised to see Wrangell’s Gr...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – Five people aboard a commuter plane were rescued Monday after an emergency landing in waters near southeast Alaska. Alaska State Troopers say the Monday morning incident occurred near Coghlan Island a few miles from Juneau during a flight from Skagway. Troopers say the five occupants swam to shore after the engine of the Alaska Seaplanes Cessna T207 stopped properly functioning because of a mechanical issue. The aircraft landed about 150 feet from the island. The plane later sank. Troopers say the pilot and four p...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – Two people in Alaska who handled a drug package after it was spotted in the mailing process and then tagged by federal officials have been arrested. Christian John Peters, 44, and Tiffany Jo Spaulding, 34, were arraigned on Thursday in U.S. District Court after a multi-agency warrant search of their house, The Juneau Empire reported. U.S. Postal Service Inspector Aaron Behnen came across a suspicious package from California on Aug. 6, he said. It was sent to “Rosetta Stone’’at the suspects’ address and contained a large c...
SITKA, Alaska (AP) – The trial date in a lawsuit related to an August 2015 landslide in Sitka has been set. Superior Court Judge Trevor Stephens on Thursday set the date for Nov. 4, 2019, along with hearing arguments for summary judgment submitted by third-party defendant McG Constructors Inc. The estates of brothers Ulises and Elmer Diaz filed a lawsuit against Sound Development LLC and the City and Borough of Sitka, with Sound Development and McG Constructors listed as third-party defendants. The Aug. 18, 2015, landslide destroyed a house o...
Robert Leroy Seimears, 87, passed away on June 6, 2017 in Wrangell, Alaska. He had been in a Long Term Care resident for five years. Robert was born August 5, 1929 in Bellingham, Washington to Clara and William Seimears joining brothers Ralph and Wayne. At age 15 Robert (BoB) ventured out on his own. He went to work as a deckhand on a Seattle fish packer northbound to Wrangell where he met Margaret Rose Ritchie. On November 27, 1948 he and Margaret married in Index, Washington. They lived in Wra...
To the Editor: I’ve heard community leaders pose the question, “How can we make Wrangell a community that attracts and retains those in the younger generations?” With the dark economic cloud looming on Alaska’s horizon, the answers to this question will become even more imperative. The changing and progressing ideological beliefs of millennials and generation Z are important to consider. Support for gay rights among younger age groups is higher than ever before. This shift has been locally evident, with recent LGBTQA (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexua...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – The Alaska Dispatch News has announced it is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and is in the process of transitioning to new ownership. KTVA reports the newspaper’s potential buyers might pay as much as $1 million for the paper. Those buyers included four siblings Ryan Binkley, Wade Binkley, James Binkley and Kai Binkley Sims as well as Alaska Media LLC, publisher of the Arctic Sounder, The Bristol Bay Times and the Dutch Harbor Fisherman. A statement from Dispatch News publisher Alice Rogoff called the decision bit...
WRANGELL, Alaska – A public meeting to discuss the Wrangell junkyard cleanup project will be Mon., Aug. 21 at 5:30pm in the Wrangell City Chambers at 205 Brueger Street. The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and NRC Alaska will give an overview of the cleanup project and present the plan to construct a monofill to contain treated soil from the cleanup of the former Wrangell junkyard site. DEC will be taking questions from the public during this meeting. For info contact DEC at (907) 465-5076. Photos and information are a...
Muskeg Meadows had 14 men participate in the Men’s Cancer Care 9 hole golf tournament on Sun., August 13. The first place team was Wayne Harding, Wayne Ellis, and Brian Smith with a net score of 23 and a team handicap of 15. The second place team was George Woodbury, Brett Woodbury, Jerry Bakeburg and Frank Roppel with a net score of 24 and a team handicap of 10. Straightest drive was Clint Lewis and closest to the pin was Wayne Harding....
Summer may be at its peak, but for students it’s quickly beginning to wind down. The new year begins for them on August 28, and several new things are in store. At Evergreen Elementary School, Gail Taylor will be settling in as its new principal. Offered the job in June and starting later this month, she was previously the elementary principal at Haworth School District in Haworth, Oklahoma. For students at Stikine Middle and Wrangell High schools, secondary principal Bill Schwan explained a new guidance counselor will be starting soon. The r...
August 16, 1917: Oscar Case, of Wrangell, who enlisted with the Engineers at Cheyenne, Wyoming shortly after the declaration of war, has recently been in training at Corpus Christi, Texas. A letter received from him recently by his parents stated that he was expecting to be transferred. His regiment is no longer at Corpus Christi, and as no news is given out concerning its whereabouts it is practically certain that he is now on the way to Europe. August 14, 1942: Mrs. S. D. Grant, Vice President of local chapter and knitting chairman, reported...
JUNEAU – The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced today that the retention of king salmon is prohibited in all Southeast Alaska salt waters, king salmon may not be retained or possessed; any king salmon caught must be released immediately and returned to the water unharmed. These regulations will be effective 12:01 a.m. Thursday, August 10 through 11:59 p.m. Saturday, September 30, 2017. The Southeast Alaska king salmon sport fishery is managed under the directives of the Southeast Alaska King Salmon Management Plan (5 AAC 47.055). T...
Boats and trailers lined the launch ramps, residents thronged the beaches, plastic ducks bobbed in Twin Lakes, and Juneau basked under the sun on a record-breaking weekend. The capital city has had a full week of temperatures at or above 70 degrees, and the weekend brought the warmest days of the year so far. Saturday’s high temperature of 81 degrees beat the old record of 80, set in 2009, and is the hottest day of the year to date. Sunday’s high was 78, beating the 1999 record of 75. Those temperatures were recorded at the airport, Jun...
To the Editor: There were some things that need to be mentioned about the article “Rock Pit site selection at creek raises concerns” in the August 3, 2017 issue of the Wrangell Sentinel. The volume of lead-stabilized soil that will be hauled is around 20 truckloads per day, not 30-40. The 30-40 truckloads per day includes both the lead-stabilized soil and the transport of clean rock to be used for the construction of chimney drains, as well as base and cover fill, and which would come from another local quarry. Transport of clean rock was pro...
SITKA – Fortress of the Bear celebrated two milestones in July the 10th birthday of Killisnoo, its very first bear cub, and the sanctuary's 10th year in operation. At his birthday party, Killisnoo was treated to two special "cakes.'' One, made of bread, eggs, honey and salmon berries was in the shape of the figure 10. "It took two hours to bake it,'' said Evy Kinnear, who along with her husband, Les, runs Fortress of the Bear. The other, made of cardboard and non-toxic papier-mache, was f...
